Earlier this year, Katherine Benvenuti — the pastry mind behind Fills Donuts, the soon-to-reopen Tasty’s pastry program, and the late-great Bakery at Bar King — started experimenting. Fills, a Berliner shop in downtown Portland, makes a brioche doughnut bun for a breakfast sandwich, but the shop wasn’t selling enough of the breakfast sandwiches to use up the buns. So, Benvenuti starting bringing the buns home for family burger night. They were a hit.
“I make them for my kids all the time,” Benvenuti says. “You’re just taking brioche and making it a little more elevated, for a down-and-dirty burger.”
Now, Portlanders can buy the brioche doughnut burgers at
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